Fitzgerald's views on the Jazz Age: Prohibition and the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s

As a man who lived in the 1920s, Patrick Fitzgerald depicted the "Jazz age" in his book The Great Gatsby in accurate detail to how I presumed that era to be.  "...Prohibitions enabled All 'Scarface' Capone to expand his Chicago crime syndicate to include 'bootlegging,' the illegal trafficking of alcohol."  In the novel The Great Gatsby, the character Gatsby hosts massive parties at his mansion, the contents of which include large quantities of alcohol.  Some speculations of the book lead certain individuals to believe that Gatsby has some rather dubious relations in order to acquire the large sums of wealth and liquor.  Another element of the 1920s that Fitzgerald brings into his book was the uncertainty and confusion concerning the Harlem Renaissance.  "While the characters in The Great Gatsby moved to New York from the Midwest, thousands of African Americans simultaneously migrated north.  According to the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, in the decade between 1910 and 1920, New York's black population increased by 66 percent..."  In the first chapter of The Great Gatsby, the character Tom Buchanan mentions a book that states that if the white race does is not careful, the minor races would overtake society.  His insistence that everyone "ought to read it" gives way to the large amounts of racism during the time.